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Introduction to Scan64

Restriction: This topic applies to UNIX environments only.

Use Scan64 to help you migrate applications from 32-bit to 64-bit COBOL systems. If you have developed COBOL programs using a 32-bit development environment that you want to migrate to the equivalent 64-bit development environment, you should run Scan64 before compiling and running those programs with the 64-bit system development environment.

A pointer in COBOL is a data item of unknown size that can only be operated on as a pointer. Direct or indirect treatment of POINTER data-items as non-pointer data-types is a violation of the rules for using pointers. You must detect and correct these violations before migrating your COBOL source code to 64-bit COBOL systems. The Scan64 utility enables you to detect pointer violations.

Note: Scan64 cannot detect invalidly-sized data items provided to prototyped CALL statements that require pointers.

Scan64 can generate various informational messages about code that it could not check.

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